College football season is on the horizon. In just 25 days, TCU and North Carolina will officially begin the 2026–27 campaign with a nonconference game in Dublin, opening Week Zero play with a rematch of last year’s college debut of Bill Belichick, a Horned Frogs blowout that set the stage for a truly bizarre first campaign for pro football’s greatest coach in the college ranks.
Voters in the preseason college football polls took a wait-and-see approach with the Tar Heels a year ago, and that proved to be appropriate. UNC didn’t receive a vote in either the preseason AP or Coaches Top 25 polls, and Belichick is still seeking his first vote from the media or his peers.
